Albionshakes the country house novel to its foundations, in a story of family, inheritance and accountabilityTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OFEXPECTATION'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma'The Times'Superb … Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe‘Beautiful . . . As provocative as it is tender’ Miranda Cowley Heller, author ofThe Paper PalaceThe Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home – at the heart of a thousand acres of English countryside – to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.They must grapple with their shared grief as well as their shared inheritance. Each of his children is adamant that their father has given them his blessing, and none are willing to
